Guest Post by Sindy Harris

Sindy’s Pigeon Service is an online store providing the best food and supplies to pigeons and their people.  The online store was inspired by my love for pigeons.  Since my husband, Steve, found white homer, Glory, in an illegal dump of an apartment on the freeway, our lives have never been the same.  In the couple of years since her self-rescue, we have volunteered with Palomacy as rescuers, fosters, adopters and aviary builders.  I have designed and had built four aviaries:  one in Benicia; one at One Living Sanctuary in Martinez; one in a backyard in Oakland and one in Jacksonville, Oregon, where Steve and I now reside.  During that time, Steve and I have constantly experimented with creating new enrichments for our aviary flock as well as our blind birds, Jake and Rosie.  Sindy’s Pigeon Service hopes to share these creative ideas and enrichments in this online store.

Sindy’s Pigeon Service also came into being as an alternative to pigeon pet supply chains which serve the dove release, roller and racer communities.  Foy’s and Jedd’s Pet Supplies, among others, solicit and encourage the misuse of pigeons by:  promoting starting a dove release business (“White Pigeons:  The Color of Money”); promoting “racing” with numerous “how to” guides and offering every necessary product to band and train racing pigeons; encouraging inbreeding of roller pigeons and “spinners,” and promoting the creation of even weirder fancy breeds by understanding “pigeon genetics.”  Sindy’s Pigeon Service is new and growing and does not yet purport to compete with these established wrongdoers.  But, it has started.  And, now there is a place for pigeon lovers, rescuers and rehabilitators to buy high quality food, “feggs,” and necessary aviary and cage supplies.  Each month, new products will be added.

Sindy’s Pigeon Service is open now!

Questions? Email Sindyspigeonservice@gmail.com